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      <title>Recent Content on Robert Ekendahl&#39;s web presence </title>
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      <title>Installing python3 support for VIM 7.4</title>
      <link>http://rekendahl.github.io/posts/vim74-python3</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
      
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&lt;h1 id=&#34;toc_0&#34;&gt;VIM and Python3&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been lucky enough to learn &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.python.org&#34;&gt;Python&lt;/a&gt; at work recently. It is
quickly become my favorite language! Since we&amp;rsquo;re starting a new exploratory
project at work we decided to work with python3. It&amp;rsquo;s the right decision
&lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; unfortunately VIM still lacks great plug-ins that &amp;ldquo;just work&amp;rdquo; with
python3.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m currently using &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/klen/python-mode&#34;&gt;python-mode&lt;/a&gt; which is &lt;em&gt;ok&lt;/em&gt; but I&amp;rsquo;m considering
testing out &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim&#34;&gt;jedi-vim&lt;/a&gt; which seem like a more interesting alternative.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve learned that both these plug-ins do support python3 but they both require
&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.vim.org&#34;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt; to be installed with &lt;code&gt;+python3&lt;/code&gt; to support it. I&amp;rsquo;ve had some issue
getting this to work but here are the instructions for the different OS&amp;rsquo; I need
to work in.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h1 id=&#34;toc_1&#34;&gt;MAC:&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;OS-X turned out to be easy (there is a reason it&amp;rsquo;s my preferd OS), yet it still
took me awhile to figure out! I use [homebrew][brew] and &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim&#34;&gt;macvim&lt;/a&gt; and
after I finally looked &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/macvim.rb&#34;&gt;homebrew &lt;em&gt;formula&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I managed to
figure out the switch (see below). As a side not I also learned you can &lt;code&gt;brew
options &amp;lt;formula&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to see available switches.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So to get python 2 &amp;amp; 3 support for &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim&#34;&gt;macvim&lt;/a&gt; using [brew] I simply did:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;brew install macvim -override-system-vim -with-python3
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s it! With that I show &amp;ldquo;dynamic&amp;rdquo; support (&lt;code&gt;+python/dyn&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp;
&lt;code&gt;+python3/dyn&lt;/code&gt;) for both Python 2 &amp;amp; 3 when I do &lt;code&gt;mvim --version&lt;/code&gt; or
&lt;code&gt;:version&lt;/code&gt; from inside &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim&#34;&gt;macvim&lt;/a&gt; in normal mode. Hopefully this will make python
mode work even better with my python3 files.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While I was at it I also reinstalled &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.vim.org&#34;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt; with:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;brew install vim --override-system-vi --with-python3
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Which gave me this warning: &lt;code&gt;Your PYTHONPATH points to a site-packages dir for
Python 2.x but you are running Python 3.x!&lt;/code&gt; but still worked and shows
&lt;code&gt;+python3/dyn&lt;/code&gt;. I use vim less frequently on mac but hopefully it&amp;rsquo;s working!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h1 id=&#34;toc_2&#34;&gt;Next steps&amp;hellip;&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I also need to get python3 support for &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.vim.org&#34;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt; under [cygwin]. I will update this
page if I figure out how to do that. I think it will require me to build from
source.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>A new home</title>
      <link>http://rekendahl.github.io/posts/first</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
      
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&lt;h1 id=&#34;toc_0&#34;&gt;A new home&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have decided to host my domain through &lt;a href=&#34;https://pages.github.com&#34;&gt;GitHub Pages&lt;/a&gt; using
&lt;a href=&#34;http://hugo.spf13.com&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;. Hopefully it will give me a good environment for quick blog posts
on technical stuff I find interesting at work. This post will details what I
had to do to make it all work (hopefully not too much).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I decided to use &lt;a href=&#34;http://hugo.spf13.com&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; mostly because I &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&#34;http://vim.spf13.com&#34;&gt;spf13 Vim
distribution&lt;/a&gt;. I love it so much, in fact, that I decided to create
fork it into &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rekendahl/vimeda&#34;&gt;vimeda&lt;/a&gt; with a focus on Electronic Design Automation
languages. More on that later. When I found that the same author had created a
fast, static website generator using &lt;a href=&#34;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown&#34;&gt;markdown&lt;/a&gt; I know I had to try it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The clincher was when I found &lt;a href=&#34;http://hugo.spf13.com/tutorials/github_pages_blog&#34;&gt;some
instructions&lt;/a&gt; for how to use
&lt;a href=&#34;http://hugo.spf13.com&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; with the free &lt;a href=&#34;https://pages.github.com&#34;&gt;GitHub pages&lt;/a&gt; service.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After some reading I realized I should start with installing &lt;a href=&#34;http://hugo.spf13.com&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; and
&lt;a href=&#34;http://pygments.org&#34;&gt;pygments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;toc_1&#34;&gt;Installing Hugo:&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Download &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases&#34;&gt;latest version&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;code&gt;v0.11&lt;/code&gt;) of
&lt;a href=&#34;http://hugo.spf13.com&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;, uzip to &lt;code&gt;/usr/local/bin&lt;/code&gt; on my macbook.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cd ~/Downloads/
mv hugo_0.11_darwin_amd64 /usr/local/bin/.
ln -s /usr/local/bin/hugo_0.11_darwin_amd64 /usr/local/bin/hugo
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That was easy and it works!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;toc_2&#34;&gt;Installing &lt;a href=&#34;http://pygments.org&#34;&gt;Pygments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;╭─ekendahl@Roberts-Retina-Macbook  ~
╰─$ sudo pip install Pygments                                                                                                                 1 ↵
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Forgot the &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; the first time but otherwise even easier&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;toc_3&#34;&gt;Test build&amp;hellip;&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cd ~/Projects/rekendahl.github.io/
hugo server --watch
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Open safari to &lt;a href=&#34;http://localhost:1313&#34;&gt;http://localhost:1313&lt;/a&gt;. The cool thing is that after each save the page automatically reloads. &lt;strong&gt;Nice!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Once the pages looks satisfactory then &lt;code&gt;ctrl+c&lt;/code&gt; the hugo server and:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;hugo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;git add -A&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;git commit -m &amp;quot;&amp;lt;something descriptive&amp;gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;git push&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;h1 id=&#34;toc_4&#34;&gt;Launch GitHub Pages lessons:&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Make sure &lt;code&gt;baseurl&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;config.yaml&lt;/code&gt; is correct (i.e &lt;code&gt;rekendahl.github.io&lt;/code&gt;) or the page won&amp;rsquo;t work.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you do this for a personal page and not project page then you need to push to master and push
to &amp;lsquo;root&amp;rsquo;. So update &lt;code&gt;config.yaml&lt;/code&gt; to read &lt;code&gt;publishdir: &amp;quot;.&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s about it. So far &lt;em&gt;Hugo&lt;/em&gt; seems fast and easy to use. I&amp;rsquo;m really just
looking for the ability to write articles of the daily engineering work I do
and this should allow me to do that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Next step is to go through setting up a cheap DNS service but that is another post&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
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